Isa Miranda
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Isa Miranda (5 July 1909 – 8 July 1982) was an Italian actress with an international film career. She worked as a typist whilst attending the drama academy in Milan and training as a stage actress. She went on to play bit parts in Italian films in Rome. Success came with Max Ophüls' film La Signora di tutti (Everybody's Woman) (1934) in which she played Gaby Doriot, a famous film star and fascinating adventuress with whom men cannot help falling in love. Having brought several of them to their ruin, she slits her wrists. This was perhaps Miranda's finest screen performance and it brought in its wake several film offers and a Hollywood contract with Paramount Pictures. There, billed as the "Italian Marlene Dietrich", she played several femme fatale roles in such films as Hotel Imperial (1939) and Adventure in Diamonds (1940). She returned to Italy soon after the outbreak of World War II and continued to act on the stage and to make films. In 1949, she starred in René Clément's The Walls of Malapaga, which won an Academy Award for the most outstanding foreign language film of 1950, and for Miranda, the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Another success of that period was La Ronde (1950), also directed by Ophüls. Her career took her to France, Germany and England, where she frequently appeared in TV films, including The Avengers. Other notable film appearances include Siamo donne (1953), a portmanteau film where Miranda shares the screen with three other screen legends, Anna Magnani, Alida Valli and Ingrid Bergman, Summertime (1955), Gli Sbandati (1955), La Noia (The Empty Canvas, 1963), The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) and Liliana Cavani's Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter, 1974). Miranda was married to the Italian director and producer Alfredo Guarini until his death in 1981. She died in Rome in 1982. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isa Miranda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A Bay of Blood
as Countess Federica DonatiAn elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an...
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The Night Porter
as Countess SteinA concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a...
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Summertime
as Signora FioriniMiddle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to...
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Bambina
as LorèIn order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday...
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La Ronde
as CharlotteAn all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier...
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
as The MarchesaAll eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the...
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Duchesse d'AngoulêmeOne Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys...
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Dorian Gray
as Mrs. Patricia RuxtonLondon, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a...
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The Walls of Malapaga
as Marta ManfrediniA French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her...
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The Seven Deadly Sins
as Mrs. Alvaro (segment "Avarice and Anger")A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust,...
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
as Velia, a Roman womanA story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to...
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Dog Eat Dog!
as Madame BenoitThree thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping...
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Abandoned
as Contessa LuisaA group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans...
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Before the Deluge
as Françoise BoussardThe title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on...
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Everybody's Woman
as Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby DoriotGaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't...
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A Kiss for a Killer
as Betty FarnwellIn Nice, a wealthy widow is charmed by a young man who marries her and manages her finances. He...
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Hell Is Empty
as Isa GrantOn the run from the police, a female thief and her band of robbers take refuge on a desert...
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The Empty Canvas
as Cecilia's MotherAn aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence...
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We, the Women
as Isa (segment "Isa Miranda")Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
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The Dollars Are Coming!
as Caterina MarchettiA widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five...
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Do You Know This Voice?
as Rosa MarottaWhen a ransom bid results in the death of a child, the police have only one lead – the old lady...
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Adventure in Diamonds
as Felice FalconA government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John...
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The Man from Nowhere
as Louise PaleariMathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is...
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Corruption
as Mrs. MattioliStefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is...
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Rommel's Treasure
as Mrs. FischerThe underworld of Cairo is alerted to certain moves of various people in the search for Rommel's...
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The Gallant Musketeer
as Catherine de MedicisSet against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three...
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Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
as Mamma LizzyTwo outlaws compete with each other over a treasure map that will lead them to buried gold while...
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Red Hot Shot
as Tenutaria bordelloFrank was removed from an investigation into Mac Brown, the owner of a pharmaceutical company,...
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Marta
as ElenaA wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful...
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Position Wanted
as Angela LeonardiMaria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting...
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È caduta una donna
as DinaIn Milan, an unwed mother, forced to flee from her town because of the scandal, meets a doctor...
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A Young World
as Une sage-femmeA freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced...
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The Secret of Helene Marimon
as uncreditedAt the end of the Great War, the wounded Jacques Taillandier is cared for by the beautiful...
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Dear Caroline
as La duchesse de BussezAgainst the backdrop of the French revolution, young Caroline tries to reunite with her first...
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La donna a una dimensione
as ElenaPaola, still young and married to a rich industrialist, seeks an outlet to the uselessness of...
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We'll Call Him Andrea
as TeacherPaolo and Maria are two elementary teachers, who love each other, but can not have a child.
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Zazà
as ZazàA glamorous female singer Zazà (Isa Miranda) has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne...
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He and She
as MotherMysterious romance involving an uninhibited woman and a photographer, shot in strange modernist...
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The Lie of Nina Petrovna
as Nina PetrovnaNina Petrovna is a Russian beauty claimed by two Austrian officers.
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Hotel Imperial
as Anna WarschawskaIt is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and...
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Destiny Unknown
as Maria BrunettiBased on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian...
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The Guilty
as Lucia RosselloValerio Rossello is a judge, with a rigid and uncompromising mentality. He is married to Lucia,...
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Malombra
as Marina di MalombraA nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her...
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The Great Deception
as la tsarine Elisabeth Petrovana de RussieBurgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth...
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Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
as MariaBelieved dead, a husband poses as his own brother, to cash in on an insurance policy.But when...
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Leckerbissen
as Self - film scenes (archive footage)"Gems" - Embedded in a frame story, the film shows excerpts from 18 entertainment films of the...
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Rasputin
as La tsarine AlexandraGregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who...
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Adventure Starts Tomorrow
as Clarence HolbaneTogether with her partner-in-crime Claude, Clarence sets her sites on famed explorer Maxime. It...
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Document Z-3
as Sandra MoriniDocument Z-3 (Italian:Documento Z-3) is a 1942 Italian spy film directed by Alfredo Guarini and...
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La carne e l'anima
as uncreditedThis melodrama was directed by an émigré Russian from a story by Corrado Alvaro and Emanuele...
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The Avengers
as Damita SynThe Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....
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Maigret
as uncreditedBBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...
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Shirley's World
as uncreditedShirley's World is a television series aired first by American Broadcasting Company during the...
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A Little Big Business
as uncreditedMarcus Lieberman passes on the secrets of the furniture trade to his young son, Simon.
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